Oregon
daily
emer
Ad Independent Student Newspaper
Vol. 76, No. 146
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Monday, April 21, 1975
Four (or five) vie
for ASUO top spot
By JIM WORLEIN
Of the Emerald
Filing for positions in the ASUO’s spring
elections ended at 5 p.m. Friday, and be
fore the weekend was over, at least one
presidential candidate had positively drop
ped out of the race.
Two well-known names in campus poli
tics, Jane Aiken and John Stewart, have
apparently pulled out of the contest for the
top spot in the ASUO hierarchy. This leaves
Jim Bemau, Dave Donley, Mike Schaefer
and Ed Delore to scrap it out for ASUO
president.
There was no filing for vice-president as
the winning candidate will appoint his
choice for the position.
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her withdrawal would be on the election
board's desk today.
Aiken has been a prominent figure on the
campus political scene for the past two
years. She ran for the position last year,
only to lose in the primary. She was
elected to the Incidental Fee Committee
(IFC) and was chosen as its chairer. Her
political stint at the University has been
marked with controversy in dealing with
such issues as student seating rights in
McArthur Court and women's athletics.
Aiken said her responsibilibies as IFC
chairer should take top priority and she
wanted to stick with the 1975-76 ASUO
budget the IFC is currently working on.
Stewart is definitely out. The Emerald
received a copy of a letter to Debra Corbett,
election board member and ASUO vice
president, in which Stewart said he was out
Conduct chief
subject of suit
University Student Conduct Coordinator
Steve Barnes is the defendant in a $50,000
law suit filed by a University freshman last
week.
Thomas Donovan filed the suit against
Barnes claiming that Donovan was wrong
fully accused of violating the student con
duct code.
The suit is a result of charges brought
against Donovan winter term. Donovan had
been charged with malicious destruction,
damage or misuse of University property,
intentionally disrupting or obstructing uni
versity functions and disorderly conduct.
The charges stemmed form a protest of
the University's purchase of Teamsters let
tuce. Several trays of lettuce were dumped
on the floor in the EMU Skylight Room.
Charges against Donovan were later
dropped after the prosecution made its
case.
The University freshman is asking
$25,000 in general damages and $25,000
in punitive damages.
of the race effective at 10 p.m. Sunday
night. He listed no reasons on his with
drawal. He said later, “it was for a number of
reasons,” but he would not specifically list
any.
Stewart ran and lost as a Democratic
candidate for state representative from Dis
trict 41 in 1974. He was delated by Republi
can Mary Burrows.
His ASUO experience included serving
as the vice-president and as an ASUO
senator from 1971-73. He is currently the
chairer for the Oregon Nuclear Moratorium
Committee.
Bemau is presently the administrative
assistant for University affairs in ASUO
Pres. Robert Liberty’s administration. He
too has been active in student government
and this past year has been involved with
student-faculty co-governance and the
proposed EMU tavern among other things.
Bemau is a graduate student in political
science.
Donley is serving his term as an IFC
member which he won last fall. The past
few months he has been examining records
to see if students lost ownership rights to
various pieces of property on campus, in
cluding McArthur Court. He is a junior in
political science.
Schaefer is also a junior in political sci
ence and is the president of the Political
Science Student Union. Unlike other candi
Photo by Warren Morgan
The bureaucracy breaker
ASUO Information And Grievance Center- Brett Carson, working in th&
newly opened booth, helps Mike Doherty find some needed information about
the University. The ASUO center in the EMU lobby was designed to give
students easier access to information about University life and to channel
grievances to proper University agencies. The booth is open from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. Friday.
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dates he has no ASUO experience, but has
worked with various political organizations,
he said.
Delore has been involved with American
Government Dependent Students (AGDS)
and has worked in veteran’s affairs and as
an AGDS lobbyist in Salem. He had student
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government experience at Southwest
Oregon Community College before serving
in the Navy for four years. He is a junior in
finance.
This will give students choice of four can
didates in the ASUO primary election
scheduled for April 30 and May 1.
University forms committee to
advise Clark in event of strike
By DENNIS PFAFF
Of the Emerald
The University administration has formed
a committee to formulate policy and to ad
vise University Pres. Clark on University
operations in the event of a classified
employes'strike.
The sixteen-member committee, chaired
by Executive Dean John Laltas, was ap
pointed by Clark to explore ways in which
the University could be kept running in the
event of a strike.
Most of the committee members are from
various administrative departments; how
ever, two faculty members, George
Zaninovich, political science, and Del Haw
kins, marketing, were also appointed.
In addition, ASUO Pres. Robert Liberty
will represent the student body.
Although a formal meeting of the commit
tee has not been held, most of the commit
tee members met Wednesday to discuss
various topics. Muriel Jackson, director of
University relations, is handling communi
cations for the committee. An over-riding
concern was expressed by all the members
of the committee for “the continued opera
tion of the University in the event of a strike
because of the impact on individual stu
dents if basic operation of the University is
interrupted,” Jackson said.
Also during the week, Pres. Clark sent a
letter to all University employes in which he
urged them to accept Gov. Bob Straub s
latest salary offers to state employes.
In the letter, Clark summarized Straub's
recommendations saying, “about two per
cent of the classified employes will receive
a six per cent increase on May 1, 1975.
About 88 per cent of the employes will re
ceive a 12 per cent increase and about 10
per cent of the employes will receive a 17
per cent increase. All classified employes
not at the top step of their range will con
tinue to be eligible for merit increases ap
proximating five per cent the coming year."
Although the Oregon State Employes
Association(OSEA) has recommended the
Governor's proposal be rejected, Clark
warned that the Legislature may not be wil
ling to fund even the amount Straub has
suggested. In any event, Clark said he be
lieves the Legislature is much more apt to
fund the present porposal if an agreement
has been reached.
Clark also said, “Naturally we hope that
you classified employes will not support a
strike. We believe that our institutional mis
sion is an important one and that you are an
important part of it.” He called the
Governor's proposal a “fair one."
OSEA reportedly sent out ballots Satur
day in which it is asking employes to au
thorize a strike. The union has also indi
cated its hope to have the ballot returned by
April 28. If any more than fifty per cent of the
employes indicate they want to go on strike,
a strike will be called, union leaders say.
Along with Jackson, Liberty, Hawkins
and Zaninovich, the committee member
ship includes University vice-presidents
Ray Hawk, Harry Alpert and Gerald Bogen.
Assistant to the President for Legal Affairs
Therese Engleman, Director of Business
Affairs W. N. McLaughlin, Director of Per
sonnel Jack Steward, Director of the Physi
cal Plant Harold Babcock, University Lib
rarian H. William Axford, Director of the
Erb Memorial Union Adell McMillan, Direc
tor of University Housing H. P. Barnhart and
Director of Campus Security Oakley Glenn
will also be seated on the committee.